Olatunde Aremu
Health Economist & Joint Programme Leader, Master of Public Health (MPH)
School of Health Sciences
- Email:
- olatunde.aremu@bcu.ac.uk
Dr. Aremu specialises in Health Economics and Management and Population health. Dr. Aremu completed doctoral training at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm. He has more than 15 years of experience spanning MedTech consulting, Public Health, clinical practice and academia. Dr. Aremu has held a couple of postdoctoral academic research fellowships and lectureship positions. During these periods, he worked across a range of funded research and commissioned reports both as a co-investigator and grant holder. Prior to coming to academia, Dr. Aremu was the European Lead, Evidence Generation - HEOR Medical Device and invitro diagnostics for a globally renowned consulting firm.
Areas of Expertise
- Population health and analyses of large survey data sets
- Economic evaluation and economics of health innovations
- Impact evaluation
- Evidence synthesis
- Quantitative and mixed methods research design
Qualifications
- PhD (Health Economics)
- PGCert, Learning and Teaching in Higher Education
- MSc
- MPH
- B.Pharm
Memberships
- Fellow, Higher Education Academy
- International Health Economics Association (iHEA)
- Cochrane Colorectal Cancer Group
Teaching
- MPH Public Health
Research
- Economic determinant of population health
- Economic evaluation along clinical trials
- Resource use and costing of public health interventions
Publications
Selected publications
Troeger CE, Alvis-Guzman N, Anber NH, Anjomshoa M, Antonio CAT, Aremu O et al Mortality, morbidity, and hospitalisations due to influenza lower respiratory tract infections, 2017: an analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. Lancet Respir Med. 2019 Jan; 7(1):69-89. doi:
Lozano R, Fullman N, Abate D, Abay SM, Abbafati C, Abbasi N, Abbastabar H, Abd-Allah F, Aremu O, et al Measuring progress from 1990 to 2017 and projecting attainment to 2030 of the health-related Sustainable Development Goals for 195 countries and territories: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. Lancet. 2018 Nov 10;392(10159):2091-2138.
Murray CJL, Callender CSKH, Kulikoff XR, Srinivasan V, Abate D, Abate KH,Aremu O, et al Population and fertility by age and sex for 195 countries and territories, 1950-2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. Lancet. 2018 Nov 10;392(10159):1995-2051
Dieleman JL, Sadat N, Chang AY, Fullman N, Abbafati C, Acharya P, Adou AK, Ahmad Kiadaliri A, Alam K, Alizadeh-Navaei R, Alkerwi A, Ammar W, Antonio CAT, Aremu O, et al. Trends in future health financing and coverage: future health spending and universal health coverage in 188 countries, 2016-40. Lancet. 2018 May.
Dalal K, Aremu O, Ussatayeva G, Biswas A. Out-of-pocket health expenditure and fairness in utilization of health care facilities in Cambodia in 2005 and 2010. F1000Res. 2017 Nov.
Dieleman JL, Haakenstad A, Micah A, Moses M, Abbafati C, Acharya P, Adhikari TB, Adou AK, Ahmad Kiadaliri A, Alam K, Alizadeh-Navaei R, Alkerwi A, Ammar W, Antonio CAT, Aremu O, et al. Spending on health and HIV/AIDS: domestic health spending and development assistance in 188 countries, 1995-2015. Lancet. 2018 May.
Fitzmaurice C, Akinyemiju TF, Al Lami FH, Alam T, Alizadeh-Navaei R, Allen C, Alsharif U, Alvis-Guzman N, Amini E, Anderson BO, Aremu O et al. Global, Regional, and National Cancer Incidence, Mortality, Years of Life Lost, Years Lived With Disability, and Disability-Adjusted Life-Years for 29 Cancer Groups, 1990 to 2016: A Systematic Analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study. JAMA Oncol. 2018
Aremu O. The influence of socioeconomic status on women's preferences for modern contraceptive providers in Nigeria: a multilevel choice modeling. Patient Prefer Adherence. 2013 Dec 4.
Mowatt G, Hernández R, Castillo M, Lois N, Elders A, Fraser C, Aremu O, Amoaku W, Burr J, Lotery A, Ramsay C, Azuara-Blanco A. Optical coherence tomography for the diagnosis, monitoring and guiding of treatment for neovascular age-related macular degeneration: a systematic review and economic evaluation. Health Technol Assess. 2014 Dec.
Aremu O, Lawoko S, Moradi T, Dalal K. Socio-economic determinants in selecting childhood diarrhoea treatment options in Sub-Saharan Africa: a multilevel model. Ital J Pediatr. 2011
Uthman OA, Popoola TA, Uthman MM, Aremu O. Economic evaluations of adult male circumcision for prevention of heterosexual acquisition of HIV in men in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review. PLoS One. 2010.
Aremu O, Lawoko S, Dalal K. Neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage, individual wealth status and patterns of delivery care utilization in Nigeria: a multilevel discrete choice analysis. Int J Womens Health. 2011.
Uthman OA, Popoola TA, Yahaya I, Uthman MM, Aremu O. The cost-utility analysis of adult male circumcision for prevention of heterosexual acquisition of HIV in men in sub-Saharan Africa: a probabilistic decision model. Value Health. 2011.
Aremu O, Lawoko S, Dalal K. The Influence of Individual and Contextual Socioeconomic Status on Obstetric Care Utilization in the Democratic Republic of Congo: A Population-based Study. Int J Prev Med. 2012.
Sidorchuk A, Agardh EE, Aremu O, Hallqvist J, Allebeck P, Moradi T. Socioeconomic differences in lung cancer incidence: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Cancer Causes Control. 2009.
Fullman N, Yearwood J, Abay SM, Abbafati C, Abd-Allah F, Abdela J, Abdelalim A, Abebe Z, Abebo TA, Aboyans V, Abraha HN, Abreu DMX, Abu-Raddad LJ. Measuring performance on the Healthcare Access and Quality Index for 195 countries and territories and selected subnational locations: a systematic analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016. Lancet. 2018 Jun.
Dalal K, Aremu O. Fairness of utilizing health care facilities and out-of-pocket payment burden: evidence from Cambodia. J Biosoc Sci. 2013.
Aremu O, Lawoko S, Dalal K. Childhood vitamin A capsule supplementation coverage in Nigeria: a multilevel analysis of geographic and socioeconomic inequities. ScientificWorldJournal. 2010
Uthman OA, Aremu O. Malnutrition among women in sub-Saharan Africa: rural-urban disparity. Rural Remote Health. 2008.
Mowatt G, Hernández R, Castillo M, Lois N, Elders A, Fraser C, Aremu O, Amoaku W, Burr J, Lotery A, Ramsay C, Azuara-Blanco A. (2014) Optical coherence tomography for the diagnosis, monitoring and guiding of treatment for neovascular age-related macular degeneration: a systematic review and economic evaluation. Health Technology Assessment, 18 (69):1-254. DOI: 10.3310/hta18690
Aremu O. (2013) The influence of socioeconomic status on women's preferences for modern contraceptive providers in Nigeria: a multilevel choice modelling. Patient Preference and Adherence 7: 1213-20. DOI: 10.2147/PPA.S51852
Dalal K. and Aremu O. (2013) Fairness of health care facilities and out-of-pocket payment burden: evidence from Cambodia. Journal of Biosocial Science, 45(3):345-57 DOI: 10.1017/S0021932012000521
Uthman OA, Popoola TA, Yahaya I, Uthman MM, Aremu O. (2011) The cost-utility analysis of adult male circumcision for prevention of heterosexual acquisition of HIV in men in sub-Saharan Africa: a probabilistic decision model. in Health. 2011 Jan;14(1):70-9. DOI: 10.1016/j.jval.2010.10.011
Aremu O, Lawoko S, Dalal K. (2011) Neighbourhood socioeconomic disadvantage, individual wealth status and patterns of delivery care in Nigeria: a multilevel discrete choice analysis. International Journal of Women's Health, 3: 167-74. DOI:10.2147/IJWH.S21783
Aremu O, Lawoko S, Moradi T, Dalal K. (2011) Socio-economic determinants in selecting childhood diarrhoea treatment options in Sub-Saharan Africa: a multilevel model. Italian Journal of Pediatrics. 23; 37:13. DOI: 10.1186/1824-7288-37-13
Aremu O, Lawoko S, Dalal K. (2010) Childhood vitamin A capsule supplementation coverage in Nigeria: a multilevel analysis of geographic and socioeconomic inequities. TheScientificWorldJournal, 10: 1901-14. DOI: 10.1100/tsw.2010.188
Oral conference presentations
Aremu. O Socioeconomic differentials in Pre-natal HIV- Screening uptake in Uganda: a multilevel UK Festival of Public Health, 2014